vimothy
yurp
there are two definitions of liberalism: procedural and substantive. in the naive view liberalism is just a procedural belief - you go your way and I go mine - and therefore no one could possibly disagree with it and all it's really saying is that youre entitled to believe whatever you want and so am I. but in reality it's a substantive set of beliefs about the world which people are expected to get behind, and even the stuff that seems procedural like strict neutrality in the public square (which obviously clashes with other more substantive liberal beliefs and is often disregarded in practice) is itself substantive, since it's saying that beliefs about the world effectively have to be a private affair which don't affect anyone else. "we're free to be you and me, as long as the differences between us never matter".